Go to Nassau


Go to Nassau is a two-CD live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on May 15 and 16, 1980, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The album, released in 2002, presents half of the songs played on the final two nights of a three-day run at the venue. It is sequenced to represent a prototypical single Dead concert, similarly to Without a Net. The shows were recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour and selections were originally broadcast on FM radio stations, on June 22, 1980. The album's title is a syllepsis, referring figuratively to the band's then-current album, Go to Heaven, and literally to the band going to Nassau County to perform.

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Jack Straw" → – 6:34
  2. "Franklin's Tower" – 11:58
  3. "New Minglewood Blues" – 7:35
  4. "High Time" – 8:52
  5. "Lazy Lightnin' " → – 3:44
  6. "Supplication" – 6:41
  7. "Peggy-O" – 7:32
  8. "Far From Me" – 4:02
  9. "Looks Like Rain" – 8:12
  10. "China Cat Sunflower" → – 5:16
  11. "I Know You Rider" – 6:30

Disc Two

  1. "Feel Like A Stranger" → – 9:29
  2. "Althea" → – 8:22
  3. "Lost Sailor" → – 5:49
  4. "Saint Of Circumstance" – 6:45
  5. "Alabama Getaway" – 4:50
  6. "Playing In The Band" → – 8:03
  7. "Uncle John's Band" → – 8:25
  8. "Drums" → – 5:26
  9. "Space" → – 2:46
  10. "Not Fade Away" → – 4:52
  11. "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" → – 6:49
  12. "Good Lovin' " – 7:23
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Recording dates

  • May 15, 1980: Disc 1 tracks 1–2 & 5–8, disc 2 tracks 5–12
  • May 16, 1980: Disc 1 tracks 3–4 & 9–11, disc 2 tracks 1–4

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

  • Jeffrey Norman – mixing
  • David Lemieux – compilation producer
  • Cassidy Law – album coordination
  • Eileen Law – archival research
  • Rudson Shurtliff – assistant engineer
  • Amy Finkle – package design
  • Robert Minkin – photography
  • Jim Anderson – photography